How to Remove a Tiny Screw With a Stripped Head In a Tight Spot

There are many suggestions out there for removing screws with stripped heads. Some that I have found include:

• Try different screw drivers with different heads
• Use a rubber band for extra grip
• Special Screw Extracting plyers
• Grind a notch into the head using a rotary tool
• Superglue

In my case I had a stripped screw in a real tight spot. So, some of these techniques were not even possible. But the superglue one got me thinking. Using my favorite glue – JB Weld, I glued the screw driver bit to the screw. JB Weld sets up more like putty than glue. Easy to manipulate and doesn’t run a lot. But it does take 24 hours to dry completely. Hence the Rube Goldberg affair of securing the screw bit with tape while it dried. 24 hours later with a twist of the screwdriver, the screw came out still clued to the screw bit. Success!